capacious

Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

Adjective

  1. Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
    • I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n - 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd...
    • ‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl. - 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens,...
    • The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared...

    Synonyms: ample commodious roomy spacious voluminous

  2. Capable, able.
    • [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of...
    • As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power. - 2025 April 28, Jeffrey Goldberg, “Signalgate, Trump, and The Atlantic”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

Origin

From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.

Forms

more capacious most capacious

Related

capable capacity

Derived

capaciously capaciousness incapacious uncapacious